The series, from July 1 until 30, will open with films from the 1940s and 50s, considered to be Mexico's golden age of filmmaking, in part due to the work of the Spanish director Luis Bunuel, who lived and worked in the country at the time. Other representative films of the period on the series programme include director Gilberto Martínez Solares's classic The Last Adventure and director Roberto Gavaldón's The Private Life of Mark Antony and Cleopatra, as well as five films by the director Julio Bracho.
The Örökmozgó will also show Mexico's "second golden age" of filmmaking, which started in the 90s, with director Guillermo Del Toro's award-winning Pan's Labyrinth, Laura Mana's comedy Sex Out of Compassion and Robert Rodriquez's action film Once Upon a Time in Mexico. Babel, 21 Grams and Love's a Bitch from Alejandro González Inárritu will be shown, as will Alfonso Cuarón's taboo-breaking Your Mother, Too and his US-made film Children of Men, along with director Julie Taymor's Oscar-winning film Frida, which stars Salma Hayek.
